A Brief View of the Nature and Effects of Negro Slavery, As It Exists in the Colonies of Great Britain

London, England: Ellerton and Henderson, 1823. Three page document measuring 8 ½ x 13 ¼ inches. Folded with some small wrinkles at edges, else Near Fine.. A document produced by the Society for Mitigating and Gradually Abolishing the State of Slavery throughout the British Dominions, better known as the Anti-Slavery Society. The group was founded in London in 1823 by a group of politicians, philanthropists, and businessmen including William Wilberforce, Joseph Sturge, and Zachary Macaulay. The document discusses the horrors of enslavement—even unfavorably comparing the British colonies’ conditions with those in the US—and decries the fact that, after the 1807 Slave Trade Act, essentially nothing more had been done to put “an end to a condition of society which so grievously outrages every feeling of humanity”. We find a single copy of the Ellerton and Henderson edition in physical format listed in OCLC as accession number 83930673.